The nightmare scenario response to the pandemic
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Two Post journalists, Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta, spent months reporting on the chaos inside the White House during the Trump administration\\u2019s pandemic response. Revelations include details about how sick President Trump really was and his proposal to send infected Americans to Guant\\xe1namo. All of this reporting is in their new book \\u201cNightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration\'s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History,\\u201d out Tuesday.
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Over the past few months, Post reporters Yasmeen Abutaleb and Damian Paletta have been looking back to the early days of the pandemic in the United States and at the nightmare scenario that played out when covid-19 and an underprepared federal government collided.
\\u201cThere was so much going on behind the scenes that Americans didn\\u2019t realize,\\u201d says Paletta.
As members of the Trump administration jockeyed for power on the coronavirus task force and debated the politics of mask wearing, the coronavirus was ripping through the country. Paletta and Abutaleb report that the crux of the pandemic came down to that unprepared, disorganized federal response.
Their new book is \\u201cNightmare Scenario: Inside the Trump Administration\'s Response to the Pandemic That Changed History.\\u201d
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